EFF: Code, Speech, and the Tornado Cash Mixer
EFF: Code, Speech, and the Tornado Cash Mixer
Posted Sep 7, 2022 10:44 UTC (Wed) by excors (subscriber, #95769)In reply to: EFF: Code, Speech, and the Tornado Cash Mixer by kokkoro
Parent article: EFF: Code, Speech, and the Tornado Cash Mixer
> Raising the block size makes it impractical for regular users to run a node. Ethereum suffers from this exact problem. You need a 1 TB SDD to run an Ethereum full node and 12TB+ SDD (and growing faster than Moore's Law) for an archive node.
That seems like a pretty basic problem with the idea of blockchains for a global financial system: the technology doesn't scale well, so it only works if people don't use it much. If everyone on Earth used Bitcoin we could each send 1 transaction every 30 years(!), which is barely enough to open and close a single Lightning channel in your lifetime. By trying to allow regular users to run a node, it becomes impossible for more than a tiny minority of people to have any presence on the blockchain at all, so either way it fails as a decentralised system for individuals.